Well Demiser, then here is what you do. Have a seperate universe that will never be attached to this or any other universe. Then only allow transfers from new universes to old ones and after a while allow free transfer to any universe when they mature enough. Only add new universes if the player base increases to add room for new players after that.

Again, if leveling up at low levels is so hard that you cannot do it without help from higher level players, then there is a serious gameplay issue. Of course a year isn't long enough for a new player to reach the same level as current players, but that's not the point. The point is to create a new player dynamic.

For example, look at Beta; it has a lot of very cool things happening in the economy and among the players...but these things are tainted, because the players always have an idea in the back of their minds of where they SHOULD be, as compared to what they are. New players face extremely frustrating situations where places they want to build are taken, extremely common items are not for sale simply because it's not worth the time of the typical level 2000+ player, and even though the information is present, players will not give it simply because it's too much effort, or they're too bored.

For example, with a little stretch, let's compare this to the game Oblivion. When it was first released, people played it, and every thing they found was potentially cool and new. Nobody knew what was around the next corner, and there were no wiki's about it, so people went out and actually explored, and made up their own ideas and rules.

Nowadays, however, both SS and Oblivion have been out for long enough that the typical ingenuity is very much gone, because you're easily able to find anything that you want to with a quick google search. If you CAN'T find it, you tend to assume that someone else has tried it and just didn't bother to post about it because they're bored.

The same thing takes place in SS. The older players are hurting the younger players, simply by existing.

This problem doesn't exist in a lot of games because much of the area that the younger players use is not used be the older players. Runescape, as much as i hate to say it, does it fairly well; their older players play somewhere different from the new players. A few years back when i first started playing, i would very rarely see older players anywhere in the first 20 levels, let alone talk to them.

The Chat system in SS only serves to extenuate this problem. Everyone can talk to everyone. If you PC a lot of lower tech items, many older players will reply "Worthless", when a newer player wouldn't know that, and to them it might NOT be worthless. Many lower tech ruins are ignored and never extracted from, because the higher level player that owns them has no use for them and it isn't worth his time to extract them. Literally tens of thousands of blueprints are in storage by older players, but dont expect them to dig them up the next time someone offers 200 mil for them...'cause heck, that's only 2 GG20, that aint worth shit.

tl;dr, and finally; The presence of a large base of extremely high leveled and large income producing players unbalances the game in a way that is unhealthy and might cause extreme problems for SS down the road. THAT is what I'm attempting to prevent.

Difference in WoW and a lot of games is you can't reuse gear like you can in SS. Souldbound shiz.

You of all people should know that WoW is very different from SS. Everything in SS focuses towards a single community, from the chats to the way the universe is layed out. Without some sort of change or divine intervention, there are going to be problems, and they will be hard to solve. I simply thought that this could solve many of those problems in one somewhat simple step.

Shawn is generally right in my opinion. The only reason it seems like a single community is because there is very few people. Small town where everyone knows one another. We don't need player segregation. Don't try to fix something that isn't broken. With an influx of players many things will be solved. A good solution for many teams will be to create a second team like SP and prepare for the influx of players and take them under their wing as an investment.

The point of this thread is null. It should be the new players talking about this not the old players. No need to seperate the players, it will only make it harder for them to learn. They need to be with the old players so the old players can help them and teach them.

demiser wont your problem be solved by lots of midgame players (who would be bothered to pc and trade these items). Maybe the tarpitting will keep players in the midgame for longer.